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Shortwave Pirate / Re: Truth Radio International 6925 USB 6.Feb 2021 15.28 UTC

« on: February 06, 2021, 1600 UTC »

1558 Decent signal here TRI, S8 or so. Music playing.
1604 Next tune.
1611 "Party All The Time" playing.
1617 "Ghostbusters"       
1628 Some good S9 pks now. Good tunes.
1632 Fading now, classic foF2 nose dive? "Footloose" playing.
1636 Synth voice with email?, tough copy right now.
1638 Music.
1639 OFF or faded out.

No problem TRI, thanks for the music!

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: The Relay Station 5150 AM 1215 UTC 5 Feb2021

« on: February 05, 2021, 1255 UTC »

1249 Stray Cats "Rock This Town" playing. I saw these guys years back. Brian Setzer is one of the best guitar players I've seen live.
        S9 with light fading.
1256 "Sunglasses At Night"
1259 Van Halen "Jump".
1303 David Bowie "Lets Dance".
1314 Kiss "I Was Made For Lovin' You".
1318 Toto "Africa". S9+
1323 "Safety Dance".
1326 A Flock Of Seagulls "I Ran". Great songs!
1329 The Clash "Should I Stay Or Should I Go".
1332 Paul Simon "You Can Call Me Al".
1338 Culture Club "Karma Chameleon".
1342 "Our Lips Are Sealed" playing, "Summer Of 69"
1351 "Fight For Your Right"

1657 Still on! Music playing at S7, good reception.
1702 Traveling Wilburys "Last Night".
1737 Pink Floyd playing. Steady S9 for awhile now.
1749 Yes "All Good People".
1802 Jethro Tull "Aqua Lung".
1824 "Night Moves" playing.
1828 Led Zeppelin.
1909 Billy Joel playing. S7-8 with light fade.
1936 Doobie Brothers.
2046 Music playing S9+
2121 "Jackie Blue"

Thanks for the tunes TRS.

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: Mix Radio International 6930 AM 2044 UTC 3 Feb 2021

« on: February 03, 2021, 2200 UTC »

2155 ID into music. S3, strong audio and sounding great!
2201 Faded out completely in a few minutes.    Great while it lasted, Thanks MRI.

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6930 USB 2048 UTC 1 Feb 2021

« on: February 01, 2021, 2136 UTC »

2135 Music playing but just above the noise.

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Azteca 5185 am 1930 utc 1 Feb 2021

« on: February 01, 2021, 1946 UTC »

1945 Good copy, "Minnesota bra thieves..."
1949 "In Kentucky it's illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket"
1950 ID
1951 Radio Azteca Story Time.
2002 Top Ten List.
2004 ID
2005 Dr. Radio... Good Stuff! 
2008 ID RA, program #36.
2012 Start of program #10, email addy.  - Snow shoveling can wait.
2014 Mailbag.
2021 ID into Animal Stories, "..woodchucks eating toilet seats".
2029 DX party program.
2034 Top Ten.
2041 ID into Dr. Radio. S9
2047 RA IS into program #39.
2059 Top Ten.

Thanks for playing these shows, doesn't get much better than RA!

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Illuminati 5185 AM 1527 UTC 31 Jan 2021

« on: January 31, 2021, 1654 UTC »

1652 "It never rains in Southern California". S9 peaks and sounding great.
1700 "Cruise"
1707 Diana Ross tune.
1722 Next tune, some fading now.
1841 Still going strong, Phil Collins playing at S9.
1847 More Phil Collins/Genesis?
1855 "Sugar, Sugar"
1858 AC thanking listeners/email, signing off. Thanks AC, nice tunes!

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: Old Time Radio 6770 AM 1225 UTC 1 December 2020

« on: December 01, 2020, 2249 UTC »

2247 Big Band type tune playing then a comedy skit, S7 peaks with fade.

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: Yeah Man Radio 6925 AM 2022 UTC 28 Nov 2020

« on: November 28, 2020, 2046 UTC »

2044 Rolling Stones playing, S9.
2045 ID into The Beach Boys.
2050 Yeah Man on the mic, Thanks for the Shout! Santana.
2056 "Live on 6925", CCR. Sounding great Yeah Man. Gotta love that AM!
2057 Peskies may be on board now.
2100 OFF

Thanks Yeah Man!

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: WTF Radio 6977 2010 UTC 28 November 2020

« on: November 28, 2020, 2044 UTC »

2042 "Ride Captain Ride", great reception S9.
2104"Atlantis" playing.
2110 "Sugar Sugar" and other song clips.
2145 Clips - "Miss You", "As Tears Go By" "Brown Sugar".

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Software / Re: audio editing software

« on: November 28, 2020, 1125 UTC »

Audacity is a good FREE program. Lots of tools and features. There is better software to buy but expensive, Audacity should be good enough.  Plenty of YouTube tutorial videos.

https://www.audacityteam.org/download/

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: Doctor Detroit 5195 AM 2145 UTC 25 Oct 2020

« on: October 25, 2020, 2233 UTC »

2232 Music playing, sounding good. S9 mod fade.

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: ION RADIO 6870 AM 1650 UTC 11 SEPT 2020

« on: September 11, 2020, 1701 UTC »

It's ION   

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6884.8 AM 2130 UTC 18 July 2020

« on: July 18, 2020, 2216 UTC »

Thanks for tuning in guys! I don't have any IDs plugged in but hope your all enjoying these 70s classics. 

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The RF Workbench / Re: Stretchyman “40W TX” Failure Investigation and Remediation

« on: May 31, 2020, 1037 UTC »

I know very little about electronics and designs and I certainly don't want to get in the middle of any war here but would just like to add my experience with Stretchyman and his transmitters.

I have been using Stretchy's original xtal TX for 3 1/2 years.

Also I have had the 40 watt GAN TX for 1 1/2 years. Yes I have always powered up at 12v and then ramped up to 24v. Just seems to make sense.

I have an order in with Stretchyman for his new 100 Watt transmitter, hopefully that will happen soon.


I have countless hours on both transmitters and have had nothing but a positive experience with Stretchyman and his transmitters.
I will buy every design he comes up with because I know he stands behind his work. What more could you ask for.

There are several of his TXs on the air here in the US and I highly recommend them. They are easy to operate and sound fantastic!

I thought people should know the positive side also.

-IR

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: ION Radio 5165 AM 2101 UTC 18 April 2018

« on: April 19, 2020, 0854 UTC »

Thanks for listening everyone and a special Thanks to the Azimuth Coordinator at Radio Illuminati for relaying the show!

reports to ionradioshortwave@gmail.com for a eQSL